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Calling Out the BSA on Its BS
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Sep 09, 2011
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last modified
Sep 14, 2011 06:16 PM
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filed under:
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) is trying to pull wool over government officials' eyes by equating software piracy with tax losses. Pranesh Prakash points out how that argument lacks cogency, and that tax losses would be better averted if BSA's constituent companies just decided to pay full taxes in India.
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Photocopying the past
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by
Sunil Abraham
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published
Sep 02, 2011
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last modified
Sep 25, 2011 08:06 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
There is no single correct position when it comes to intellectual property or IP. In fact, there are at least five correct positions that you could possibly adopt based on who you are — a pro-creator position, a pro-entrepreneur position, a pro-government position, a pro-consumer position and a public interest position.
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Of Jesters, Clowns and Pranksters: YouTube and the Condition of Collaborative Authorship
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by
Nishant Shah
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published
Nov 03, 2011
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last modified
Dec 14, 2012 10:24 AM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright
The idea of a single author creating cinematic objects in a well-controlled scheme of support system and production/distribution infrastructure has been fundamentally challenged by the emergence of digital video sharing sites like YouTube, writes Nishant Shah in this peer reviewed essay published in the Journal of Moving Images, Number 8, December 2009.
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Analysis of the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
May 23, 2012
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last modified
Nov 12, 2013 02:13 PM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Fair Dealings,
Piracy,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Economics,
Intermediary Liability,
Featured,
Technological Protection Measures
There are some welcome provisions in the Copyright (Amendment) Bill 2012, and some worrisome provisions. Pranesh Prakash examines five positive changes, four negative ones, and notes the several missed opportunities. The larger concern, though, is that many important issues have not been addressed by these amendments, and how copyright policy is made without evidence and often out of touch with contemporary realities of the digital era.
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CIS's Statement at SCCR 24 on the Treaty for the Visually Impaired
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 22, 2012
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filed under:
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Accessibility,
Access to Knowledge
This was the statement read out by Pranesh Prakash at the 24th meeting of the WIPO Standing Committee for Copyright and Related Rights in Geneva, on Friday, July 20, 2012.
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CIS's Statement at SCCR 24 on Exceptions & Limitations for Libraries and Archives
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by
Pranesh Prakash
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published
Jul 25, 2012
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Fair Dealings,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Archives,
WIPO
This was the statement delivered by Pranesh Prakash on Wednesday, July 25, 2012, at the 24th session of the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyrights and Related Rights on the issue of exceptions and limitations for libraries and archives.
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Super Cassettes v. MySpace
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by
Ujwala Uppaluri
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published
Oct 30, 2012
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last modified
Oct 31, 2012 10:27 AM
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filed under:
Access to Knowledge,
Copyright,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Intermediary Liability,
Featured
The Delhi High Court’s judgment in Super Cassettes v. MySpace last July is worrying for a number of reasons. The court failed to appreciate the working of intermediaries online and disregard all pragmatic considerations involved. The consequences for free expression and particularly for file sharing by users of services online are especially unfavourable.
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Comments on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft)
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by
Snehashish Ghosh
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published
Nov 26, 2012
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last modified
Dec 01, 2012 03:36 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge
The Department of Science and Technology invited public comments on the Science, Technology and Innovation Policy (Draft). Accordingly, the Centre for Internet and Society has made the following comments on the draft policy document.
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Comments on the Broadcast Treaty and Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives
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by
Smitha Krishna Prasad
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published
Nov 29, 2012
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last modified
Dec 04, 2012 11:11 PM
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filed under:
Intellectual Property Rights,
Copyright,
Access to Knowledge,
WIPO
This November at WIPO the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights was witness to a tough negotiation on the proposed Treaty providing access to copyrighted materials to visually impaired persons. In between these discussions, the SCCR also found time to have two short plenary sessions on the proposed broadcast treaty as well as working documents on exceptions for libraries and archives.
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Fueling the Affordable Smartphone Revolution in India
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by
Anubha Sinha
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published
Mar 16, 2016
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filed under:
Featured,
Intellectual Property Rights,
Access to Knowledge,
Pervasive Technologies
Smartphones have emerged as the exemplar of mankind's quest for shrinking technologies. They embody the realization of a simple premise – that computing devices would do more and cost less. This realization has been responsible for modern society's profound transformations in communication, governance, and knowledge distribution.
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